We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Four ways to streamline your R workflows The case for a pipe assignment operator in R Bye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these "*down" packages for these years, here I am to announce "Yihui-down" Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W02 Supplement Resources R-Weekly Curation Calendar Dashboard https://rweekly.github.io/rweekly-calendar/ Quarto All the Things workshop from R/Pharma 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-dQ36sx4Rk Rami Krispin's VS-Code R container template repository https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r-template Assignment pipe operator discussion on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/111664623134443564 Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)